Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-19
THE RAILROADS.
The City Of Jacksboro Finally Aban.
dons All Hope as Regards the
Gulf and Pacific Road.
Fort Worth Should Prepare to Receive the
Railroad Magnat.s Who Will coon
be with Cs-Home Notes.
HONS Notes.

Homs Notes.
Chief Engineer Bissell of the Fort
Worth and Denver was in the city yester-
day.
A special train bearing officials of the
Texas and Pacific reached the city last
night.
Ia few days the New York capitalists
interested in the Fort Worth Western will
reach Fort Worth.
Another charter for q Fort Worth rail-
road will, it is whispered about, be filed
at Austin in few days.
Thirteen cars of steel for the Fort
Worth and Rio G-ande were unlosded IN
the Texas and Pacific yards yesterday to
give room for more material coming.
The machinery used in drilling the ar
tesi6n well here was so badly damaged by
the fire few nights ago that 1t Will take
longer than was supposed at first to re-
pair it, and it may be several days before
work is resumed.
Ia ten days President W. B. Strong Of
the Atchisou, Topeka and Santa Fe, and
q director of the Southern Kansas OF
Texas with its initial point Fort Worth,
will be in this city with other directors,
who are well-known citiz=ns OF Boston,
Mass, and Topeka, Kan, and men Of
wealth.
4 gentleman who is supposed to know
says that Jay Gould and party will be here
on Thursday morning. Have our bust
ness men made any arrangements to snow
him around the city as was done at Fort
Smith, Helena and Little Rock, Ark? Mr.
Gould would probably like to see what
Fort Worth really IS.
+. HAYDEN, formerly general superin-
tendent Of the American Express Com
pany, but now resident manager at St.
Louis, was in Fort Worth yesterday. Mr..
HAYDEN has Just returned from an inspec-
ton of some mining property in Arizona,
owned by q St. Louis syndicate, OF which
ne is a member.
The extension Of the Fort Worth an'
Denver to Quanah has been delayed con-
siderably by the nOn-arrival Of ties. The
tie contractors IN Eastern Texas have
their hands full at present, and are, in
fact unable to supply the roads leading
from Fort Worth as fast as they need
them. Another cause of trouble is that
the railroad companies have not the cars
sufficient to transport the ties.
A we'll known railroad man said yester-
day, "the necessity of that belt line men
toned frequently in THE GAZETTE is
more and more apparent, and you Will
see il built sooner tlan you now expect"
Certain 1t Is, that from the trouble eX-
perienced by the Fort Worth and Rio
Grapde, Fort Worth and New Orleans,
and Fort Worth Western in getting into
the CITY, has come a determination to
have some arrangement OF this kind
made.
Col. Keller, superintendent of the Rio
Grande division of the Texas and Pacific,
spent all dav yesterday in Fort Worth,
0usy with affairs of the road. He said
he knew nothing whatever about new
union depot, had seen no plans and heard
of none. 10 regard to the Strawn coal
he said there was now no question IN re-
gard to it; the fact thlt 1t was the best in
Texas, and the equal of any hauled here
on the cars was now demonstrated. Col.
Keller went west last night.
A citizen of Jacksboro, who was in
Fort Worth yesterday, says that Jacks
boro has finally and for good ceased ne
gotiations with the Gulf snd Pacific Rail-
way Company. He says the people there
waited until the 10th of this
month, one day longer than agreed
upon, and then agreed that they wonld
tie to the Fort Worth Western
and Denton. Decatur and Jscksboro
roads. He SAID he did not know how
Decatur felt about the Gulf and Pacific,
out that the committee which met IN this
CITY some time ago had Decatur man on
it and that he agreed that if the Gulf aud
Pacific did not come to the front by jan
uary 5 that he, with the rest OF the Com
nittee wOuld advise Decatur to lock to
the Denton, Decatur and Jacksooro for
more railroad facilities. The wherea-
bouts of Mr.. Henderson and the ipten u
lions of the Gulf and Pacific are not at
present known.